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Andrew's Movie Night @ Café Frosch
We hold a monthly movie night on the last Friday of every month, where we show a movie on the projector at the back end of the cafe. These movie nights are presented by English Night host Andrew. Before each screening, Andrew speaks about the movie in English and Japanese.
FREE Admission!
Open:18:00
19:15 Andrew's introduction of the movie
19:30 Start of the movie
Coming next...
Rumble Fish
(changed from The Wanderers)
Friday, 29 October
1983 - USA - 94 min
Directed by Francis Ford Coppola. With Matt Dillon, Mickey Rourke, Diane Lane, Dennis Hopper.
"Rusty James is the leader of a small, dying gang in an industrial town. He lives in the shadow of the memory of his absent, older brother -- The Motorcycle Boy. His mother has left, his father drinks, school has no meaning for him and his relationships are shallow. He is drawn into one more gang fight and the events that follow begin to change his life."
- IMDb-
 11th - Once
- Presented by Ayu -
Once is a special little film set in Dublin, Ireland that tells the love story of a struggling busker and a young Czech immigrant. The beautiful music and naturalistic story really make it a unique and lovely film that you will want to share with others.
10th - Almost Famous
 ７０年代はロックンロールにとってとても大切な時代だった。
６０年代のロックンロールは、もっとヒッピーぽくってだいぶ「ゆるい」。７０年代の音楽は英語で「クラッシックロック」っていう。その名の通り、誰にとっても懐かしい音楽だった。
非 常に有名なバンドがたくさん出てきた。Led Zepplin, Black Sabbath, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Bruce Springsteen, The Eagles,など。僕も高校の頃そんな音楽ばかりを聞いていた。３０年以上が経ったのにまだ独特の魅力があると思う。
この映画はその世界が舞台だ。フィクションだけど、Cameron Crowe監督の本当の経験について描かれている。
この映画の主役とCameron Croweは両方とも十代の頃、Rolling Stone Magazineのジャーナリストになった。そんな仕事は、十代のアメリカ人にとって夢の仕事だ。でもやっぱり、夢の仕事でもつらい事はたくさんある。
ロックンロールの生活って、たぶんみんなが思うより大変だと思う。楽しいけど早く疲れさせる。
この映画ではみんなの空想と現実の苦しいところの両方を見せるから、僕みたいなロックンロールのファンにとってとても面白いと思う。
9th - Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Directed by John Hughes, starring Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, Mia Sara.
It's now pretty much the thick of summertime and thus it's time to celebrate sunny days, freedom, and exuberance. This movie is an absolutely classic meditation on youth, fun, and enjoying life to its fullest. I would venture to say that it is a physical impossibility not to get caught up in this wonderful films contagious joie de vivre. - chikachika... bau bau... Oh yeah... -
8th - Easy Rider
 Directed by Dennis Hopper, starring Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, and jack Nicholson.
As many may know, this past month Dennis Hopper, one of Hollywood's foremost counterculture representatives, passed away. As a kind of a memorial to his life and work, this month's Movie Night will be a showing of one of his most celebrated films, Easy Rider. The film is a story of two biker friends who ride across the landscape of 60s America searching out what exactly constitutes "America" anymore. Along the way they meet a wide assortment of characters, from free loving hippies, to hard headed locals who are not very appreciative of the liberal ways springing up around them. This movie is not to be missed by anyone interested in America's culture and recent history.
7th - Before Sunrise
 Directed by Richard Linklater, starring Ethan Hawke & Julie Delpy.
A Drama/Romance about a man and a woman who meet on a train and disembark in Vienna, where they spend the night walking around the city getting to know each other.
6th - Tampopo
 すこし大げさかもしれないけど、この映画の魅力は、僕が来日した事に直接影響を及ぼしたかもしれません。
僕と「たんぽぽ」の歴史は驚くほど長い。僕が１２歳ぐらいの頃、ミニシアター系映画が好きなおばさんのおすすめで初めて見て、その時から多分、一番多く見ている映画になった。高校生と大学生のころ、授業でもたまに上映していた。
それはなぜかって言うと、この映画は単なるラーメンコメディじゃなくて、全体的にみると、もっと社会的な論文に見えると思う。
当 然、食べ物は人間の人生と密接に繋がってる。特に日本は食べ物の文化が豊かだと思う。この映画は、日本人のその「凝り性」をうまく掘りおこして軽くひねっ ている。命、死、愛情、男女の関係、成長、家族愛、国際交流、身分、等、全てがこの映画に含まれている。しかも、コメディの部分もめちゃめちゃ面白い。
最後に、伊丹監督はこの映画を、セルジオ・リオネ監督みたいな「マカロニウェスタン」って言う映画のジャンルにもとづいていて作った。そのため、この映画は世界初で、多分最後の「ラーメン・ウェスタン」だった。
5th - Blues-Brothers
4th - Monty Python and the Holy Graill
3rd - Mystery Train
2nd - Rocky Horror Picture Show
1st- American Graffiti
- The Wanderers -
A number of films have been made over the years about the West Side Story style gangs of New York in the 1960s, but I would venture to say that none surpasses The Wanderers in terms of both its entertainment value and in the way that it takes full on the deeper sociological themes tied up in the genre. At once a story about a group of teenage boys grappling with the idea of leaving the comfort of highschool for the greater world, this movie also encompasses issues of race relations, economic challenges, war, and responsibilities tied up in premarital "relations". While mostly a cult film known to few, The Wanderers is the kind of film you leave always wanting to share with someone else.
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